@brainblasted And by the way, I've figured out that I needed to learn about specific technologies by looking up for as precise keywords as possible, for example I insert the exact driver name to bring up in-depth blog posts and filter out unanswered questions. Same with e.g. instead of looking up for information on human rights abuse in Irak detention facilites, I first lookup their names on Wikipedia then I add them to my search query.
@oceane but if you don't know those details, in the modern internet you are now completely lost. Before you used to be able to find those details organically, starting from your search engine.
@brainblasted Indeed, people who've learned to use the web in the 2000s seem now to be completely lost, and to rely on Google snippets. Learning something new has become a tedious task, tantamount to learning the CLI on your own, by reading manual pages, or – to put things into perspective – learning to use spice as a racist, white person.
People need to re-learn how to use search engines and I believe it's our responsibility to develop infrastructure (e.g. feedle.world, elfeed-like RSS clients, a tag-aware OPML equivalent) and to put up accessible materials so e.g. the poor can use search engines again.
(Although as a sociology student I'd be tempted to say that the ideal way to use a search engine is now inaccessible to the poor and that it's not necessarily a coincidence.)
